Event

The University of the West Indies hosts a Professorial Inaugural Lecture presented by Professor Gyan Shrivastava titled “River Mechanics - Linking Engineering and Society”

The lecture will be held at Engineering Lecture Theatre 1, Block 13, Max Richards Building, Faculty of Engineering from 5:30pm.

All are invited.

ABSTRACT

Rivers are authors of their own geometry and are of major interest to civil engineers for water supply, irrigation, bridge construction, power generation, navigation, drainage, and wastewater effluent disposal. River Mechanics applies the conservation laws of mass, energy and momentum for the study of varied flow in rivers; and provides the analytical tools for the optimal design of river-based civil engineering works. This lecture will first outline the basic conceptual framework of River Mechanics, and then show – through examples in the Caribbean – how it links, and can link, engineering and society for sustainability, progress and preservation.